Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 2012, 5:55 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 2012, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 6:00 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 S Rosalia, KS | |
| Sep 25, 6:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 3 W Atlanta, KS | HAIL SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN QUARTER SIZE REPORTED JUST WEST OF ATLANTA. |
| Sep 25, 6:21 PM CDT | HAIL 1.25 | 2 N Atlanta, KS | HAIL SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN QUARTERS NOW A COUPLE MILES NORTH OF ATLANTA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 404 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
401
WUUS53 KICT 252255
SVRICT
KSC015-035-073-252330-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0182.120925T2255Z-120925T2330Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
555 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHERN COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 550 PM CDT...A SCATTERED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEON TO
6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATLANTA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BURDEN...ATLANTA...LATHAM AND CAMBRIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3726 9700 3801 9660 3801 9622 3760 9653
3743 9653 3724 9671
TIME...MOT...LOC 2255Z 251DEG 19KT 3778 9653 3739 9683
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
DARMOFAL2 follow-up statements
860
WWUS53 KICT 252307
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
607 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012
KSC015-035-073-252330-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0182.000000T0000Z-120925T2330Z/
GREENWOOD KS-BUTLER KS-COWLEY KS-
607 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
COWLEY...SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER AND WESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 630
PM CDT...
AT 604 PM CDT...A SCATTERED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF EUREKA TO 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ATLANTA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ATLANTA...BURDEN...LATHAM AND CAMBRIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3726 9700 3801 9660 3801 9622 3760 9653
3743 9653 3724 9671
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 231DEG 19KT 3782 9649 3738 9682
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$
DARMOFAL654
WWUS53 KICT 252320
SVSICT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
620 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012
KSC015-035-073-252330-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0182.000000T0000Z-120925T2330Z/
GREENWOOD KS-BUTLER KS-COWLEY KS-
620 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
COWLEY...SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER AND WESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 630
PM CDT...
AT 618 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES WEST OF EUREKA TO ATLANTA...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO VEHICLES...ROOFS AND WINDOWS. MINOR TREE
DAMAGE...WITH LIMBS UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BROKEN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LATHAM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3726 9700 3801 9660 3801 9622 3760 9653
3743 9653 3724 9671
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 227DEG 22KT 3785 9642 3741 9675
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60 MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 26 min |
| Sep 25, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Woodson | 24 min |
| Sep 25, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Allen | 32 min |
| Sep 25, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 37 min |
| Sep 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 44 min |
| Sep 25, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 21 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.